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POEMS OF OCCASION Intent on these broad pages thou shalt hear

The trumpets' blare, the Argive battle-cry,

And see Achilles hurl his hurtling spear,

And mark the Trojan arrows make reply!

TO W. S.

HYMN OF THE WEST

, whose glorious orbs on high

Engird the earth with splendor round,

From out thy secret place draw nigh

The courts and temples of this ground;

Eternal Light,

Fill with thy might

These domes that in thy purpose grew,

And lift a nation's heart anew!

Illumine Thou each pathway here,

To show the marvels God hath wrought!

Since first thy people's chief and seer

Looked up with that prophetic thought,

Bade Time unroll

The fateful scroll, 212